Competing against myself
On the spur of the moment, I bought myself a pedometer over the Christmas break.Partly this was because of Amy Tenderich's book Know Your Numbers, Outlive Your Diabetes. I'm about half way through the book, and it really does a good job at emphasizing the importance of exercise.
We finally have a treadmill in the house, so that helps me for the 25 minutes or so when I'm on it. But for the rest of the day, or the days when I'm not on it, I really don't pay any attention to how much walking exercise I'm doing.
So now I put the pedometer on first thing in the morning and take it off last thing at night. Then I'm using dHealth.net (which I found out about courtesy of Dave Mendosa's posting) to track the steps I take each day.
Guess what I found out?
For me, it's very challenging to wear this thing. Each day I have it on, I'm really focused on trying to break 7,000 steps. So far (one week and counting) I've got about a 50% success rate, but it's really motivating me to try and walk more and walk faster.
Can't be bad.
If you're interested, the pedometer I purchased is something like this one on Amazon (and yes I'll get a little something if you purchase this one from Amazon).
I actually got mine at an Olympia sports for about $16 (battery included), the model is an Accusplit Alliance 1590 and it's working just fine so far.
I'm hoping to work up to an average of 8,500 steps per day. I'll let you know how it goes.
Labels: exercise, health, walking
posted by Bernard @ 9:49 PM
4 Comments:
cBernard, I have been using a pedometer for 7 years, ever since my HMO provided them with their "10000 Steps" challenge (I don't know how they came up with 10000 - seems like an arbitrary number). It is a great tool to track progress, although sometimes I'm a bit compulsive. It takes a lot of walking to get to 10000 steps, even with me going 8 blocks each way to the busstop and walkng a mile over lunch. Some days you think you've been very active and you werent, yet it's also a great reminder how little bits of activity add up at the end of the day. Be careful - I have dropped more than one in the toilet.
Several times I've tracked my steps on a measured walking path, and I'm pretty consistent at about 2500 steps per mile.
Good luck!
hey!
well at the moment my pump is funded. i don't pay a thing. however my hospital only works with the accu chek spirit pump which isn't really the pump i want. i mean i am lucky to have one. our hospital can't get anyone else on a pump now because of lack of money.
if i buy the animas myself the SHOULD still fund the consumables. I will have to see.
People have done so much to try get more diabetics on pumps writing to mp's etc... local papers all kinds but the country is in a right state and i can't see anything happening about things.
i think the national health service is c**p and we should have something like what you guys have.
:O) oh well.
vic x
That's awesome.
It is *ridiculous* how much exercise helps my blood sugars. This is a great way to start off the year, Bern.
I hope you meet the challenges you set for yourself!
wow gold cheap wow gold buy wow gold world of warcraft gold wow world of warcraft wow gold WoW Warrior WoW Hunter WoW Rogue WoW Paladin WoW Shaman WoW Priest WoW Mage WoW Druid WoW Warlock power leveling powerleveling wow power leveling wow powerleveling wow guides wow tips food flower google?? google???? google???? ???? ???? ???? ??? ?? LED? ?? ?? ??? ?? ?? ?? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? powerlin518 logo design website design web design ????
Post a Comment
Links to this post:
Create a Link
<< Home